After the DestructionAgainst The Current vol. 139

As Barack Obama mounted the Washington, DC inaugural stage on the euphoric morning of January 20, 2009, in Gaza the sounds of Israels invasion  the U.S.-supplied F-16s bombing runs, the artillery shells that accurately hit their targets of hospitals and clinics and refugee schools with children inside, the clearly-marked made-in-USA canisters of white phosphorus that burn people alive from the inside, the newly field-tested DIME bombs that efficiently tear multiple limbs off the victims  had gone at least temporarily silent.